Your Best Reference for Antique Marks. Including pottery marks, porcelain marks and everything antique or collectable.

Antique marks is your easy to use online reference for everything antique.

With detailed information on all kinds of antique china, pottery marks, porcelain marks, antiques and collectables.
Antique Marks includes antique terms, a full antiques glossary and detailed history on well known companies and artist biographies. As well as pottery & porcelain companies and information on caring for antique rugs, carpets, silver and glass.

But best of all … Its all FREE, and at your fingertips 24/7.

The site includes graphic illustrations of over 100 manufacturers products to help identify & date your pieces and over 10,000 makers marks and a full antiques glossary with a full easy to use search facility. Antique-marks.com is ideal for the collector to check or verify attributions listed in online auction sales.

In the Art Deco period Demetre Chiparus created truly stunning works of art full of life movement and adoration for the female form. Knowing how to spot a genuine Chiparus sculpture is essential if you are to avoid the countless fakes, forgeries and reproductions flooding the popular Art Deco collectibles market
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The information can be accessed while they are creating their item description and a link to the relevant section can be provided to the potential buyer; just to re-assure your customer that the antique china you are selling is exactly what you say it is.

It is invaluable to the seller who is unsure of an antique china maker or the date of a piece of porcelain or where to research the origins of quality antique pottery.

And; it can also help prevent you selling antiques for low, low prices.

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Popular China Marks

One of the most prized porcelain collectibles. Royal Worcester marks from the Dr Wall period right through to modern times. Use our Worcester marks reference to date your Worcester porcelain and decipher those dot codes

The Wedgwood Collector is faced with many imitators and must ensure they are buying true Wedgwood antiques that bear genuine Wedgwood marks. Use our china marks to confidently attribute the piece to the Wedgwood potteries.

Originally founded as a studio in 1897 within the James Macintyre & Co ceramic company, Moorcroft pottery is among the most popular pottery collectables. Use our reference to date your Moorcroft Pottery marks.

In April 1723 the Leipziger Post Zeitungen, announced that Meissen porcelain would carry a mark to guard against forgeries. Properly identifying the Meissen blue crossed swords mark and the Augustus Rex Mark will show you that not all blue crossed swords marks are Meissen

In 1775 William Duesbury’s hard work was rewarded by King George III and Derby Porcelain was born. In 1890 Queen Victoria helped make it Royal Crown Derby and it has produced some of the most collectable porcelain products ever made

John Rose and Coalport Porcelain used a great variety of Coalport marks as well as early Coalbrook Dale marks and mock Sevres & Chelsea marks. The Coalport Standard Crown mark is the best known but there are many versions and other marks

Hummel figurines are beautifully cute rather than realistic and Hummel marks cover various periods from 1931 when Berta Hummel entered the covent of Siessen to after 1946 when she passed away. We include Geobel marks that include & exclude the Bee.

200 years of Minton makers marks, trade marks and year cyphers. From 1796 this important Stoke firm has traded under various styles and in 1842 it introduced year cyphers. Here’s where you’ll find them …

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